Generative AI is over, in case that wasn’t clear

Man, I’ve been waiting to write this one for a while. Generative AI is over. Wait, what? No, not really. I like to get histrionic when I spit out these little proclamations that will be more concrete anywhere from three to nine months from now. Because I want you to have that sentence etched into your brain as you plan out what exactly it is you say you do here over the next three to nine months. Because I don’t want to see you, three to nine months from now, still sending five-page reports full of AI slop when a single surgical paragraph will do. I don’t want to see you get silently downgraded when your sales deck has three “It’s not this, it’s that” phrases on three consecutive slides. And I don’t want to see you saving your SaaS company by bolting on a chatbot to replace your report interface or customer service agents and calling your product “AI native.” Yeah, the bad news is that’s not Taco Tuesday for amphibian left-handers; it’s a critical mass understanding of how LLMs work. The good news is the case for AI has never been stronger. A brief history of me crapping on generative AI Look, I’ve been doing this AI nonsense for a long time. Sixteen years ago, I started talking a…